Many people ask this question, is chicken good for health? the answer is not straight forward, chicken by itself is a good thing but lot depends on how you cook, if you use lot of oil then it is definitely not good for health, but same chicken if you make salads it is good. So any chicken recipe to be called as best chicken recipe it is very important to see how it is cooked. In other words boiled, roasted, or grilled chicken is the best meat you can have, but for a recipe to qualify as good chicken recipe it should be fried. And if you are worried about taste, roasted chicken or grilled chicken tastes better than the fried form. I spent lot of time finding out best chicken recipes on the web, so what are we waiting for, lets jump to the list of best chicken recipes then.

Best Chicken Recipes

Chicken Recipe 1 – Not dull roasted chicken salad with almonds and other good things

As the name suggests, it is a very healthy, heavy and nutritious chicken recipe and that is the very reason for this recipe to be on the top of the best chicken recipes list. In this recipe there is everything that is good for health, let it be chicken, or vegetables like carrot and bell peppers, or the dry fruits off-course. Also as I told before also, salad is the best way of consuming chicken! The taste of this recipe is unbeatable and good thing about salad is they are very good option for dinner, and once you get used to salads in dinner you will not like anything else in its place.

You will need two things to make this dish, one oven and two patience. Though you don’t have to spend all the time in kitchen the cooking takes around 1 1/2 hour. Also getting the ingredients of this recipe is not easy but believe me its the herbs usage that makes this chicken recipe very special. I always liked Grace Parisi’s recipes but this one is the best I will say. One another recipe of Grace Parisi I liked most is ‘Chicken Curry with Squash’ but believe you will have to spend some time to find the very unique ingredients used in her recipes. Author claims that this recipe is ideal for both weeknights and parties, I do not know about weeknights but awesome option for weekends and get together.

If you do not have time but still want to have something yummy in your dinner then this recipe is ideal. The reason for this recipe making to top chicken recipes list is the simplicity and awesome taste. You prepare this dish, but let me warn you that you may fall in love with it and may want to cook often but nothing wrong, this recipe is soft on your health and does not consumes much of your time. One more good thing about this recipe is you can change the base from chicken to either turkey, shrimp, or even tofu.

Chicken and barbecue sauce are best friends. Any recipe that has chicken with barbecue is very good for your taste buds, but why I selected this one in particular for best chicken recipes is the combination. Barbecued chicken with sandwich breads needs lot of thinking, I am really surprised with the unique combination, but try it to appreciate it!

I talk about best chicken recipes and don’t include a soup! just not possible. But which chicken soup recipe to pick is not a easy task. But my search for best chicken soup recipe to me to India, South India, Tamil Nadu. This recipe is amazing, tamarind with chicken what a creativity, but this dish is very common in this part of the globe. When the climate is cold try this recipe you will never forget. For more information, in this region tamarind is a very common ingredient for many recipes, but this soup is really outstanding!

What makes a best dinner recipe? There is no one answer for this question, everyone have their own opinion about food in dinner. Some people say we should take very light food in dinner because we don’t do much physical activities after dinner and some other people say they eat a lot in dinner and reason they give is they don’t get proper sleep if they don’t eat well in dinner. Moreover, some people think dinner is only meal for which they get time to cook and as well as time to eat, so they prefer to make it best. So, one recipe cannot be called as best recipe for dinner for everyone. Therefore, I have handpicked some recipes for every kind of dinner need.

Best Dinner Recipes

Dinner Recipe 1 – Lemon Chicken and Rice Recipe

Not many people prefer rice in dinner but I know many people who prefer rice in all the 3 meals or at least 2 times. Also occasionally its okay to go for something like this for its taste. The reason why I think this recipe is good to make to the list of best dinner recipes is its taste. Lemon chicken is always very good in taste. Also in this recipe you need not worry about with what it will go well! The author claims it to be a quick recipe and it will take only 30 minutes to prepare but I think when you try first time it may easily take 45 minutes. One more good thing about this recipe is its ingredients are very common, which means you can try this recipe occasionally and still need not waste anything. For people outside USA, cornstarch (one of the ingredient) is nothing but cornflour. Try this recipe and please write feedback.

Kashmiri cuisine is very popular in India and Pakistan. Kashmiri food is particularly very popular with muslims in this region. The reason for this mutton curry recipe making to the best dinner recipes list is, these kind of curries generally go well with roti. Roti is again very popular in Indian Subcontinent. Roti is generally made of stoneground wholemeal flour, traditionally known as atta flour. And there are at least 25 varieties of roti like Paratha roti, Wrap roti, Dhalpuri, Chapati, Naan etc., But if you are not interested in roti, you can have any dinner bread as alternative to roti. Preparation and cooking time all put together it should not take more than one hour. Again ingredients of this recipe are easily available, if you do not know what Saunf is it is nothing but fennel seeds.

This is one more non-veg recipe which has made to the best dinner recipe list. This is definitely not for everyday dinner but if you have guests then nothing can be better than this recipe, believe me guests will surely appreciate it. If you do not know what butterflied chicken means, it is nothing but removing the rib, back and breast bones from normal chicken and then you can spread it out like butterfly. If you do not have butterflied chicken you can alternatively use normal boneless chicken breast too. This recipe can be served with well roasted vegetables of your choice. This recipe is very easy to cook and does not take much time as well.

If you think health is above everything then this recipe is for you. The reason for this recipe making to the list is, this recipe is health conscious. As name suggests it is mainly salad and there is not much oil and wherever there is oil it is peanut oil which is considered as good for health. And if you are still not satisfied refer to the Nutrition Facts section of the recipe.

Rolls always make a very good dinner recipe. If you ask me one can have roll in dinner for any period! Rolls are always served hot so it is a very good option in cold climate. Buttermilk in rolls is really creative. But one word of caution this recipe takes lot of time, so try only if you have patience.

Poori with aaloo palya is one of my favorite breakfast item. In South Indian restaurants it is one of the very common thing served as breakfast. Generally many people use to have this when they happen to go to restaurants for breakfast because it is generally considered as difficult dish to prepare at home. But now with this easy steps recipe you can make this very delicious food item for breakfast at home itself. Just in case if you do not know, aaloo in hindi/urdu means potato and palya (argued to be kannada word) means a mash of potato to which special tempering treatment is given.

If you do not want to have poori with palya, if you are a non-vegetarian you can alternatively you can have it with paaya (I will write paaya recipe some time soon) or if you are a vegetarian you can try with chana masala (I will try to write chana masala recipe in my future posts) as well.

Mix maida with wheat flour
Add entire ghee, salt and around 100 ml water (water is to make dough so add accordingly)
Mix all the above to create dough
Once the dough is ready create table tennis sized balls out of it
Then flatten (by pressing) the balls but don’t make it very thin
Now heat the entire oil in a deep pan (kadai)
Fry the previously flattened dough balls
This should create poories like the ones in the below picture

Method for cooking Aaloo Palya (potato mash):

Boil potatoes for 20 minutes on low flame
Let the potatoes become cold
Peel the potatoes
Mash them but ensure that it does not becomes paste
Heat oil in a pan
Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, dry red chillies, black peppercorns and curry leaves
After half a minute add onions and fry it for 2 minutes
Now add turmeric powder and tomatoes
Stir for a minute and add salt
Finally add mashed potatoes and mix well and leave it for a minute
Now your palya is ready and should look similar to the second picture

Now your poories and aaloo palya are ready to serve. Remember poori is good only if you serve it hot.

My previous vegetable curry recipe was slightly on the heavier side. This recipe is more suitable for daily kind of cooking. This dish is very easy to learn and cook. Takes some 40 minutes to get ready (out of which 30 you almost won’t have to do anything ). Vegetarians will surely appreciate this recipe. This curry will go well with Lemon rice (Click here for some great lemon rice recipes). Kindly leave comment so that I can tune my writing with my audience. Thanks!

Ingredients of vegetable curry:

Cooking oil: 3 tsp

Garlic cloves: 4 to 5 (tip: garlic is very good for health, so if you do not hate its smell you can add 2 more)

Cumin seeds: 1/2 tsp

Onions: 2 tbsp chopped

Coriander powder: 1 1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder: 1 1/2 tsp

Green chilies: 2 tsp finely chopped

Ginger paste: 1 tsp (tip: ginger is another healthy ingredient, so if you do not hate its smell you can add 1 more tsp)

Fry onions for half a minute or so (tip: fry till onions turn into light brown)

Add half a cup of water

Now add 1 1/2 tsp coriander powder

Add 1 1/2 tsp turmeric powder (health tip: turmeric powder is very good from health perspective, turmeric can kill cancer cells and that is one of the reason why you see this ingredient in many of my recipes)

Now add chopped green chilies

Fry for a minute or till everything turns into reddish brown

Add ginger paste

Stir for one more minute

Now your curry is ready so time to add vegetables

You can add vegetables of your choice, in this case I am adding cauliflower and potatoes

Turn the stove to medium flame and leave it for 30 minutes (stir occasionally)

Vegetable curry is very common Indian food, in a vegetarian family this dish is generally cooked at least once a week. Vegetable kurma is a very healthy food and good on proteins and very low on calories. Even in this recipe health has been kept high on priority. The more the vegetables you add the more tasty it will become. Paneer is again a optional thingy for some reason if you do not like paneer you can leave that out. This curry goes well with parantas, naans, roti or even plain white rice (but you may require rasam). This recipe should serve 4. Please provide feedback so that we can collectively improve recipes.

Turn on stove and put in medium heat
Place a deep pan
Add oil and heat it
Fry cashews (1/4 cup) and raisins
After roasting lightly take cashew and raisins out
In same oil add bay leaf, cinnamon stick, whole green cardamom, whole cloves, and white peppercorns
After quick roast of above add cashews (2 tbsp) and fry for some more time
Now add onion, salt, and turmeric powder
Now close the lid tightly

While the onion is getting cooked,
Take a microwave bowl and add cauliflower, green peas, carrot, and some salt
(Tip: different vegetables take different amount of time to get cooked and they require different amount of water so they should be cooked separately)
(Tip: salt should be added early so that it gets well mixed with vegetables)
Mix vegetables and add 1/2 cup of water
Close the bowl and keep in microwave for 3 and then stir and keep it back for another 2 minutes (ensure vegetables does not becomes like paste)

After keeping vegetables in microwave get back to onion and add ginger, garlic and green chilies and mix well and leave it for another couple of minutes
Once the onion color turns to dark brown turn off the stove and let onion cool down

Now remove vegetables from microwave and transfer them in some normal bowl
Then in the same microwave bowl add potatoes, some salt and 1/4 cup of water
Close the bowl and keep in microwave for 3 and then stir and keep it back for another 2 minutes (ensure potatoes does not becomes like paste)
After 5 minutes remove potatoes from microwave and transfer them in some normal bowl
Then in the same microwave bowl add green beans, some salt and 1/4 cup water
Close the bowl and keep in microwave for 3 and then stir and keep it back for another 2 minutes (ensure green beans does not becomes like paste)

While your green beans are getting cooked in microwave, grind onion with 1/4 cup water (the complete stuff along with the whole spices) such that it becomes paste
Now again turn on the stove on medium heat and on the same pan add this paste and stir it constantly so that it does not burns
After a minute of stirring add cumin powder, coriander powder, red chili powder and mix further
Add 1/4 cup water and stir till the water is completely dried up
Now add paneer, tomatoes, green peas and cook for 2 minutes
Now add evaporated milk (if you do not get evaporated milk normal milk can be used)
Cook for another minute and set the stove to low
Now add yogurt while continuously mixing and then cook for another 2 minutes
Now add all our already cooked vegetables and mix well
Now close lid and cook for another 5 minutes
Now open the lid and mix again and turn off the stove
Finally add cilantro and mix slightly
And to garnish add our already roasted cashews and raisins and mix slightly
The vegetable curry (kurma) is ready to serve.

2 cheese slice for each burger
2 tomato slice for each burger
2 peppers for each burger
lettuce leaves

Method to prepare burger

Add the burger mix ingredients one by one in the order of list of ingredients and keep mixing all the time this should create a nice paste

After the paste is ready, for each burger take paste in hand (around 3/4th size of baseball ball) and flatten it (you know how burger’s main portion looks right)

Now, add 2 tbsp olive oil in hot skillet (pan)

Once the skillet is hot (tips: this is important) add 3 to 4 burgers (depending on the size of skillet)

Fry for 3 to 4 minutes on each side

Once all the burger’s main portions are fried, take burger bun cut it into two halves and in the middle of the bun’s two halves place burger and toppings (refer to above toppings ingredients) one by one in the given order

Not ready to believe? yes your burger is ready

This is a nice veggie burger with the exception of eggs. This recipe is for making 12 burgers!

Lemon rice is one of the many popular south Indian masala rice dishes. Key thing about cooking lemon rice is that each rice should be separate from another and one should get to feel the tangyness. Of course you cannot cook it everyday but nice option for weekend. If yours is a big family you will like it more. Lemon rice is best with chilly mutton or chilly chicken. Vegetarians can have it with kara chatni or masala aloo (potato, click here for recipes using potatoes) fry (I will write this recipe soon). And if you are eggetarian this lemon rice will go well with boiled eggs (tip: do not boil it completely).

Now add turmeric powder to it (turmeric powder should NOT be added along with other stuff because it burns very quickly)

Now add this tempered stuff to the rice

Mix the tempered stuff with rice using a spatula such that entire rice looks yellow in color

Now dry roast the fenugreek seeds and asafoetida powder and then grind them and kinda sprinkle it over the already mixed rice

Yes you are done with the cooking of lemon rice, congrats!

Chilly mutton:

Chilly mutton takes mutton’s taste to next level. On any given day this is one of my most favorite way of cooking mutton. Key thing about this dish is the size of the mutton pieces, they should be very small, the reason being masala should become an integral part of the mutton pieces. In this lunch recipe I am advising chilly mutton with lemon rice but this goes equally well with rasam (char) / sambar (dal or dalcha) and steam rice or plain dosa.

Add all the ingredients quickly one by one (order really does not matters)

Now add 100 ml water

Close the lid tightly and leave it for 20 minutes on low flame

Now put off the stove open the lid of the cooker and see if the mutton is cooked (sometimes if the mutton is hard then it takes some extra time to get cooked so if it is not cooked add little bit of water and again close the lid and leave it for 5 more minutes on low flame)

Now your mutton is also ready… what are you waiting for go and enjoy your delicious food with your happy family

Tips: Low flame is important because if you keep on high flame the mutton/masala will start burning and will get stuck to the bottom of the cooker

This chicken curry called chicken kurma is extremely popular in India in general and south India in particular. This delicious chicken dish goes well with ghee rice (better still bagara khana, in future I will write this special rice recipe) or even plain steam rice. You will love this curry if you are predominantly a non-veg fan. If you want to have it in breakfast or dinner, you can also try this recipe with dosa (if you do not know what dosa is, I will write about dosa in future and also I will try to write about its various variants and how to cook them). This particular recipe will serve 4 if you are having with dosa or ghee rice one more person can be served.

Method for cooking mutton biryani:
How to prepare aknee:Step 1: Lit your gas stove
Step 2: Keep open pressure cooker
Step 3: Put entire oil and heat it
Step 4: Add garam masalas (cinnamon, cloves and cardomoms)
Step 5: After a minute add the entire chopped onion
Step 6: Roast onion till it turns into golden brown (this is important, its okay if onion gets roasted a bit extra, but it not should remain partially roasted)
Step 7: Now add ginger garlic paste and stir well
Step 8: Add salt 1 tsp (or according to taste)
Step 9: Now add the entire mutton
Step 10: Add red chilly powder, coriander powder, and turmeric powder
Step 11: Keep mixing and cooking the mutton for around 15 minutes (or till it starts sticking to cooker, also remember we are NOT adding any water at this point)
Step 12: Now add tomatoes and again cook for some time (some 3 to 4 minutes)
Step 13: Then add green chillies, coriander leaves, and mint leaves and stir well
Step 14: Now add curd, lemon juice and 200ml water and close the lid of cooker and leave it for 10 minutes (or more depending on the hardness of the mutton)

Step 1: After closing the lid of the aknee cooker, soak rice in water and leave it for 10 minutes
Step 2: After 5 minutes of soaking rice in water heat 3 liters of water on another stove (do not use cooker for this, use ordinary aluminum vessel), heat it for 5 minutes
(Note: At this point, your aknee should be ready so put off that stove and rice should ready to be added to this heated water)
Step 3: Remove water from the soaked rice
Step 4: Add rice to the above heated water
Step 5: Add salt 2 tsp (or according to taste)
Step 6: Leave rice to get cooked to some 75% (approximately takes 5 to 7 minutes, the basic idea here is the should be bit raw so that it gets cooked along with aknee as mentioned below)

Now both your aknee and rice are ready, so its time to mix them. Remove water from rice and add rice to the aknee and quickly close the lid of the cooker (ensure that not much of vapor is lost). Leave it for 10 minutes. Now your Muslim mutton biryani is ready to serve. At the time of serving, without disturbing too much keep mixing rice and aknee (do not mix the entire stuff in one shot)).

Enjoy the biryani and do not forget to give feedback in comments. I understand its a challenge to write recipes and make completely unknown people understand them and cook the dish successfully so your comments are vital.